The Institute of Ismaili Studies has awarded its doctoral scholarships for the fifteenth year. The two recipients of the 2011 cycle of the scholarship programme are Zarangez Karimova from Tajikistan and Ula Zeir from Syria.
Zarangez Karimova completed the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities (GPISH) at the IIS in 2009. Whilst studying at the IIS, she conducted field work in Cairo, Egypt, on how ‘traditional’ communities are responding to the initiatives of change introduced by external agencies at Cairo’s historic district of al-Darb al-Ahmar.
Ula Zeir, who is currently studying the Turkish language at Istanbul University’s Language Centre, is also an alumna of the GPISH programme having graduated in 2008. She holds an MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh.
via The Institute of Ismaili Studies – IIS Announces PhD Scholarship Awards for 2011.
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